Piet Retief Commando information

Piet Retief Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the...

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The Piet Retief Delegation massacre was the 1838 killing of 100 Voortrekkers by the Zulu king Dingane in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The...

combined Voortrekker laager at the Sand River where, unbeknownst to them, Piet Retief had been elected Governor and a constitution drafted. Uys refused to...

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the killing of the Voortrekker Piet Retief and his entourage. The British missionary and his staff had warned Retief that he was in danger from Dingane...

movements which occurred during the 1830s–40s. On the 22nd of January 1837 Piet Retief addressed a letter to the British Colonial Administration in which he...

invited Retief to his residence at uMgungundlovu to finalise the treaty, having either planned the massacre in advance, or deciding to do so after Retief and...

was created by merging the Pongola Company of the Piet Retief Commando with the North Coast Commando on 17 October 1970. Under the SADF, the unit was mainly...

defend themselves after the betrayal murder of chief Trekker leader Piet Retief and his entire entourage, and ten days later the Weenen/Bloukrans massacre...

Exceptional incidents were Thinthitha Dlamini's attack on a party from the Piet Retief commando near Hlatikhulu in February 1901, and General Tobias Smuts's attack...

from the Burgersdorp Commando to the Stormberg Commando around 1972. The local gaol, which is also a national monument in Piet Retief street was the headquarters...

transport convoy of the Piet Retief Commandos. About 65 Boers were captured in the operation. The remnants of the Commandos retreated towards the southern...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

The Nelson Mandela Regiment (formerly Regiment Piet Retief) is a reserve infantry regiment of the South African Army. The regiment was founded on 1 February...

trek groups of Piet Retief and Gerrit Maritz came to Potgieter's rescue. Moroka also helped with oxen. His group joined up with Retief and Maritz at Thaba...

short-lived Boer republic in what is now South Africa (around the town of Piet Retief). From around 1876, a group of Boers lived on land bought from the Swazi...

made use of the commandos at Carolina, Ermelo and Piet Retief for some borderline functions. This unit, along with all other Commando units was disbanded...

Trek as an infant. He married Adriana Gertina Davel (31 January 1848  – Piet Retief, Eastvaal District Council, Mpumalanga, 29 January 1929) and had a daughter...

April 1838, during the period of the Great Trek. After the massacre of Piet Retief and his men by Dingane on 6 February 1838, a number of Voortrekker camps...

son of Petrus Lafras Uys and Alida Maria Uys. After the massacre of Piet Retief and his men by Dingaan on 6 February 1838, a number of Voortrekker camps...

Natal moving deeper inland. At the command of the Zulu king Dingane, Piet Retief was murdered in February 1838 along with his men. They were invited under...

Drakensberg. These Voortrekkers were led by Piet Retief. Passing through the almost deserted upper regions, Retief arrived at Port Natal in October 1837. During...

town of Weenen in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. After killing Piet Retief and about 100 people of his delegation, the Zulu King Dingane sent his...

with Dingane's Zulu kingdom. In October 1837, the Voortrekker leader Piet Retief visited Dingane at his royal kraal to negotiate a land deal for the voortrekkers...

Petrus Johannes Liebenberg (Piet Liebenberg, 29 September 1857 – 5 March 1950) was a Boer general in the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). Liebenberg was born...

captain of the first Springboks team to win the Rugby World Cup in 1995 Piet Retief, boer voortrekker Esta TerBlanche ("Terre-Blanche") Eugène Terre'Blanche...

of M. W. Pretorius) and Deborah Retief, in 1898.: 524  During the Anglo-Boer War, he was part of the Pretoria Commando serving in the artillery but was...